The Daily Source of Urban Planning News

"To conservative Christians, environmentalism was a dirty word -- it stank of paganism, of interference with the free market, of the sixties. Meanwhile, many environmentalists were more secular than the American norm, and often infected with the notion spread by the historian Lynn White in his famous 1967 essay, "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis," that Christianity lay at the root of ecological devastation. Everyone, in short, was scared of everyone else. But there were a few lights starting to shine in that gloom."

October 12 - Grist Magazine

<p>Prop. 90 looks like a simple anti-Kelo bill...until you get to the part about regulatory takings. Officials in Los Angeles are waiting with baited breath to see if the proposition passes.</p>

October 12 - The Los Angeles Times

<p>After undergoing years of gentrification, New York City's Greenwich Village has become almost unrecognizable to its long time residents.</p>

October 12 - The Boston Globe

<p>The head of Atlanta's most prominent development firm expects transplanted suburbanites to balloon the city's intown population to over 800,000 by 2020. These numbers far exceed Atlanta's regional planning agency forecasts of 650,000 residents.</p>

October 12 - The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

<p>Like other rural communities, a southern Colorado town struggles to provide services to homeless people without adequate assistance from the federal government.</p>

October 12 - The New York Times

<p>In a sweeping series of budget cuts, Canada's Conservative government has eliminated the only federal support available for municipalities wanting to preserve heritage buildings.</p>

October 12 - The Globe and Mail

<p>When it comes to the Gaza Strip, most talk revolves around making peace. One architect and urban planner has drafted a plan that focuses on "the day after".</p>

October 12 - Business Week

<p>The population is rapidly declining in Bulgaria, especially in the younger age brackets, leaving many older residents to struggle as the social security system is on the verge of no longer sustaining itself.</p>

October 12 - International Herald Tribune

<p>The Kelo decision spurs ballot measures to restrict eminent domain and "regulatory takings".</p>

October 11 - The New York Times

<p>Architecture critic Blair Kamin bemoans the misplaced opulence of the many mansions that have popped up in classic Chicago neighborhoods over the last couple of years.</p>

October 11 - The Chicago Tribune

<p>This opinion piece from the <em>Palm Beach Post</em> accuses the county's planning commissioners of bowing to the desires of developers and showing little concern for the way the 'planned' land is to be used.</p>

October 11 - Palm Beach Post

<p>Despite assurances by Pepsi and other conglomerates that their new inner-city strategies are driven by good intentions, critics say profit is an even bigger motive.</p>

October 11 - The Wall Street Journal

<p>The last, and only time I.M. Pei worked in his native China was in 1982 when he designed a Beijing luxury hotel. Disappointed in that work, Pei jumped at the chance to return to China once again to design the Suzhou Museum.</p>

October 11 - The New York Times

<p>A new transportation museum celebrating the streetcar has opened in San Francisco, fittingly opposite the ferry building where they once took commuters from the East and North Bay ferries down Market Street.</p>

October 11 - The San Francisco Chronicle

<p>More Katrina evacuees went to Texas than any other state except Louisiana. A year later, many of them are in limbo.</p>

October 11 - Shelterforce Magazine

<p>At a Phoenix hospital, thoughtful building design creates a healing environment for patients.</p>

October 11 - Newsweek

<p>The effects of development on New Hampshire watersheds are examined in this first part of a three-part series.</p>

October 11 - Exeter News-Letter

<p>The Baltimore City Council is pushing forward on a comprehensive plan for the city to create more affordable housing.</p>

October 11 - The Baltimore Sun

<p>As one of Europe's fastest growing regions, the burgeoning City of Inverness is grappling with its growth issues by contemplating the benefits of New Urbanism.</p>

October 10 - The Times

<p>Researchers calculate We calculate a 'sprawl index' for all metropolitan areas and then examine the reasons why sprawl differs across space.</p>

October 10 - The Quarterly Journal of Economics